Soroti City Engineer on Spot over alleged shoddy works and mismanagement of funds

The general purpose committee of Soroti city council has resolved that the city engineer, Robert Kairu goes on forced leave.

They want the engineer to go on forced leave to give room for investigations over alleged shoddy works and mismanagement of Uganda Road Funds (URF) money.

The decision is contained in John junior Okwii the chairperson general purpose committee led report for the current financial year 2022/2023.

Okwii said close to one billion shillings is budgeted under URF quarterly but the work done is shoddy.

Okwii notes as a council, they want the office of the inspectorate of government, resident city commissioner and police CID department to institute investigations into the alleged mismanagement of URF in Soroti city and believe this can only happen if the engineer steps aside.

The committee cited shoddy works in the 8meters Ajena road that was allocated 800million under transitional grants but looks incomplete without stone pitch.

Simon Peter Okiring, the councilor representing Soroti city east also accused the engineering department for giving less attention to Soroti City East.

He said most road works have been done in Soroti city west.

But while presenting the Engineering department report, Engineer Oranit on behalf of the city Engineer noted that the city lacked equipment claiming that most of the money is being used on hiring the equipment’s.

The probe on different sectors in Soroti City continues on Thursday.